Nehemiah 9:16-18

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

¹⁶ But they and our fathers acted presumptuously and stiffened their necks, and did not heed Your commandments.

¹⁷ They refused to obey, nor were they mindful of Your wonders and miracles which You did among them; but they stiffened their necks and in their rebellion appointed a captain, that they might return to their bondage [in Egypt]. But You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great steadfast love; and You did not forsake them.

¹⁸ Even when they had made for themselves a molten calf and said, This is your god, who brought you out of Egypt, and had committed great and contemptible blasphemies,